“Being a family with children, we weren’t exposed to physical violence, but we were returned without our possessions. Without phones, money, even the sleeping bags - they took everything. Once we were detained for two days...
Baby Amir* was only 7 days old when we met his mother Zahra* at Bira migrant and refugee camp in Bihac, Una-Sana Canton, in north-west Bosnia and Herzegovina.
They are called “children on the move”. Children who have been travelling for years to reach a country where, as they’ve been told, “they will be just fine ...”.
Eight months on the “Balkan route” have cut Sirvan’s* childhood short. He and his parents escaped from the hardships of their home country Iraq to look for a safer home and have been on the road since...
North West Balkans 
Salakovac, May 2018. Photo: Goran Djemidzic/UNICEF BiH
